Prompts winter weather advisories as cold air moves in Friday night

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It’s a beautiful late fall Friday as I type this post. You can see the leafy lawn blanket with a few stray leaves on the trees below a pretty blue sky at the Weather Lab in the photo above. 

So far, temperatures in the Twin Cities are running 4.8 degrees warmer than normal for November.

This weekend features a fading weather system that dumped heavy snowfall in Colorado easing into Minnesota. The system will bring scattered light rain showers, especially Saturday afternoon through Sunday morning. 

On the map below, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s FV3 model shows the trend between 7 a.m. Saturday and noon Sunday.

Rainfall totals with our weekend system look light, generally less than one-quarter inch in most areas.

Highs on Saturday will range through the 40s to low 50s across Minnesota.

Sunday brings high temperatures in the low 50s south with 40s north.

Next week looks slightly warmer than normal for November. 

The normal high and low temperatures for the Twin Cities by next Wednesday are 43 and 29 degrees. Highs will run most in the 40s with a few lower 50s next week.

The American Global Forecast System model has hinted at possible snow for parts of Minnesota next Saturday for a couple of days now. 

Here’s the map for next Saturday night from Friday morning’s 12Z run:

So far, the Environment Canada and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts models have not developed snow across Minnesota next weekend. So we’ll see if NOAA’s Global Forecast System is out to lunch here, or if it’s onto something.

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A weak weather system will bring scattered light rain showers this weekend. 

Scattered light showers Saturday. Snow chance next weekend?

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